Dr Bahijja Raimi-Abraham is a pharmaceutical scientist, academic, founder, and speaker working at the intersection of pharmaceutical systems, global health, and science communication. Her work spans Europe and Africa, connecting research, policy, and practice.
About
Dr Bahijja Raimi-Abraham is a pharmaceutical scientist, Senior Lecturer at King's College London, and founder of Scientifically Speaking. Her work focuses on improving how science moves across people, institutions, and society through research, communication, and collaboration.
With over a decade of experience spanning research, education, and public engagement, Dr Bahijja Raimi-Abraham has built a career around making complex ideas understandable and useful. Her work sits at the intersection of pharmaceutical systems, global health, science communication, and leadership, with a particular interest in how science moves across people, institutions, and society.
Through her academic research, public engagement activities, speaking engagements, and platforms including Scientifically Speaking and Monday Science, she explores the connections between science, systems, and real-world experience. Her work combines scientific depth with thoughtful interpretation, helping audiences understand not only how science works, but why it matters.
What I Do
Most people are told to pick a lane. Dr Bahijja built a career connecting them. Her work spans pharmaceutical science, global health, science communication, and leadership, bringing together research, policy, education, and public engagement to address complex challenges in health and society.
As a Senior Lecturer at King's College London, Dr Bahijja leads research focused on pharmaceutical challenges in infectious diseases, including medicines quality, antimicrobial resistance, drug delivery, and non-animal infection models. Through teaching, mentorship, and academic leadership, she is committed to developing the next generation of scientists while advancing research with real-world impact. Her work also extends into regulatory science, global health partnerships, and capacity building across Europe and Africa.
Dr Bahijja is the Founder and Academic Lead of King's College London Fight the Fakes, an initiative raising awareness of the impact of substandard and falsified medicines through research, advocacy, and public engagement. She is also the founder of Scientifically Speaking and creator of Monday Science, platforms designed to make science more accessible, relevant, and connected to everyday life. Through podcasting, events, media, and strategic communication, she works to strengthen public understanding of science while creating opportunities for dialogue across sectors and communities.
Dr Bahijja is an international speaker, moderator, and commentator on pharmaceutical systems, global health, science communication, leadership, and equity. She works with organisations, universities, conferences, and media platforms to translate complex issues into clear insight, connecting science with policy, practice, and public understanding. Her expertise has contributed to international conversations across academia, industry, regulation, and public health, with a particular interest in how science can create meaningful societal impact.
Beyond research and communication, Dr Bahijja plays an active role in shaping professional communities and international collaborations. She serves as Chair of the International Pharmaceutical Federation Women in Science and Education (FIPWiSE), Pharmacy Working Group Lead for the African Diaspora Malaria Initiative (ADMI), and has previously served as a Board Member of the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences. She also advises organisations working across healthcare, innovation, and women's health, helping to connect research, leadership, and practice.
Speaking
Dr Bahijja brings pharmaceutical expertise, systems thinking, and real-world experience to audiences across academia, industry, healthcare, government, and the public sector. Her talks connect science, health systems, leadership, and society, making complex issues accessible, practical, and relevant.
How medicines move from discovery to patients, and where the system succeeds, struggles, and creates unintended consequences.
Topics include medicines quality, antimicrobial resistance, drug development, regulation, innovation, and global health systems.
What happens when health challenges cross disciplines, sectors, and countries.
Exploring antimicrobial resistance, infectious diseases, medicines quality, health equity, and collaboration across Europe and Africa.
The practice and principles of effective science communication.
What the evidence tells us about trust, public engagement, misinformation, behaviour change, and making complex science understandable without oversimplifying it.
What it takes to build across academia, entrepreneurship, leadership, and communication.
An honest look at creating opportunities, leading organisations, managing multiple identities, and navigating careers that do not fit traditional boxes.
Who gets to participate in science, who benefits from it, and what needs to change.
Moving beyond representation towards conversations about structures, access, leadership, collaboration, and institutional culture.
Systems thinking as a practical skill for leaders, researchers, innovators, and organisations.
Frameworks for understanding complexity, making better decisions, solving problems, and creating sustainable impact.
Book Dr Bahijja
Dr Bahijja helps audiences understand the connections between medicines, health systems, leadership, innovation, and real-world impact. Drawing on experience across academia, global health, regulation, public engagement, and entrepreneurship, her talks combine scientific depth with accessible insight.
Available for engagements across academia, industry, healthcare, government, and the public sector.
Based in London. Speaking across Europe, Africa, and internationally.
Direct Enquiries
For keynotes, panels, moderation, workshops, media appearances, podcast interviews, and advisory engagements:
speaking@scientificallyspeakingglobal.comMedia and Press
Dr Bahijja has contributed to major public projects and media campaigns across broadcast, podcast, print, and exhibition, with a particular focus on pharmaceutical systems, global health, and the fight against fake medicines.
Featured Campaign
Dr Bahijja has worked with BBC News Africa on their campaign to raise awareness of the impact of fake medicines in Africa, appearing across multiple video features examining how to identify substandard and falsified medicines, mobile phone detection tools, and systemic solutions to the global medicines quality challenge.
What People Say
"WOW! Words cannot describe how thankful my peers and I all are for your deliverance about your fascinating career. I can assure you every girl at Francis Holland is now your biggest fan!"
"Some Year 11 girls later told me that it had been their favourite lecture so far in their time as academic scholarship holders, and several sixth form students have made a point of saying how much they liked it. All of them said it was because you were so engaging!"
"Dr Bahijja was great, very engaging and interesting. We received positive feedback."
"Bahijja is an excellent speaker and we would certainly be interested to use her again for events, either online or in person. We have had nothing but positive feedback from audience members."
"She was great — such a bubbly personality, had the girls totally engrossed and loads stayed behind to chat with her afterwards."
"Our Prize Giving event went very well on Friday. Bahijja was fantastic and we received lots of lovely, positive feedback."
For media enquiries and press requests
speaking@scientificallyspeakingglobal.com →Contact
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